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Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuckerberg: Just ask

Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.

Zuckerberg: I don't know why.

Zuckerberg: They "trust me"

Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks

Instant messages sent by Zuckerberg during Facebook's early days, reported by Business Insider (May 13, 2010)

I wouldn't want them to have selective memory in favor of juicing Elon's marketing scams either.

None of this should be surprising to anyone who has given an ounce of effort to examining Elon's character.

Lies about capabilities, timelines, even things as frivolous as being rank one in a video game. He bought Twitter to scale his deception.

I don't think it's that nonsensical to realize that in order to have AI, you need generations of artists, journalists, scientists, and librarians to produce materials to learn from.

And when you're using an actual AI model to "train" (copy), it's not even a shred of nonsense to realize the prior model is a core component of the training.

DeepSeek was trained with distillation. Any accurate estimate of training costs should include the training costs of the model that it was distilling.

Market riggers using the GOP to make ridiculously stupid bets and then cashing in for outsized gains when they bend the world toward stupidity with expensive disinformation campaigns that make them actually come true. The darkest form of capitalism.

Just in case you aren't joking, they did not fire the person responsible for the bad numbers. They fired the person responsible for observing and reporting them.

You would think the US government would be interested in the US government's success, but the past eight months have proven starkly otherwise. What makes one think they will be looking out for Intel's interests any better?

Few people have the balls to do the right thing when the risks pass a certain limit. And yet it's most important to do the right thing at the largest scale.

Some of them have certainly flagged themselves as opportunistic and myopic.

Smartest people will be working against that. You're thinking of opportunistic people with myopia.

Not all humans are practitioners of the terminal gamesmanship that is infecting our economy and government. It's about electing, promoting, and buying from the right people, and having the courage to properly punish those who have betrayed the good faith that powers successful societies.

Good question. I suppose it's adjacent to the intent behind electing a felon career con man who committed sedition.

I don't understand this assumption that crypto transactions are nobody's business. That's a feature of cash payments, which from what I understand can only be emulated in crypto by transferring control over a non-custodial wallet, which is cumbersome to the average person.

If you're crypto banking with a third party that muddles your wallet's transactions you've already added one of the institutions you claim to be against.

If you transact on the blockchain, you're broadcasting who your wallet transacts with on levels that are far more publicly transparent than how fiat is traded via institutions.

We can, via laws. In the US, there are anti discrimination laws for protected classes in some areas. You won't find that Nazis are a protected class, but if you would like them to be you can run for office and try to pass a bill and see how the free market plays that one out for you.

If you don't like it, start another payment processor that doesn't cave to pressure. Where are all the free market proselytizers at?

I expect all of you complaining about this to never once complain on legal grounds about Apple's 30% tax in the app store or when a bakery refuses to sell a cake to a gay person.

This is what unrestricted freedom for every entity looks like.

And this is why we need laws and regulations that are actually enforced. Because companies and larger organisms do not necessarily operate on timescales that are able to be reasonably responded to within a human lifespan.

Why would anyone be concerned with the industry vs the economy? Especially when it’s an industry engaged in foul play?

Any dollar “lost” as a result of customers being able to cancel results in customers gaining more money to empower industries that are actually productive.

I don't buy that argument. The issue is companies deliberately built complexity on top of their existing systems to make it harder to cancel. The added complexity that costs a lot of money to fix is a result of their unfair and deceptive practices.

An enormous amount of deadweight loss would be returned to the economy if they simply implemented a much simpler design of click to cancel and avoided the unfair and deceptive practices in the first place.

His FTC delayed the implementation of this massively popular rule long enough for these judges and lobbyists to find some rationalization that allows dark patterns to proliferate. If the Trump FTC reissues the rule I'll change my view.

Another value destroying milestone of the felon seditionist's megagrift administration

It is trivially easy to capture the intent to cancel and allow customers to execute in one click. Any business that does otherwise is actively expending energy to prey upon economic surplus and add to deadweight loss.

The issue is that many folks rely on and even manufacture financial illiteracy as part of their "business"

It's extremely easy to give people what they want: a quick way to cancel a subscription. It should be criminal to deliberately hide that action behind phone calls etc.

Yes, and creating documentation is an exercise in understanding the whole experience. Often, nobody on the team truly gets it.

These types of "Aaackshually" business strategies are repulsive, and are evidence that these people who wield immense responsibility do not deserve it.

> it is better to grant 10 bad men access to information than to deny that access to 1 good one.

I disagree when it comes to a tool as powerful as AI. Most good people are not even using AI. They are paying attention to their families and raising their children, living real life.

Bad people are extremely interested in AI. They are using it to deceive at scales humanity has never before seen or even comprehended. They are polluting the wellspring of humanity that used to be the internet and turning it into a dump of machine-regurgitated slop.

They might say they want it, but like a wise parent guiding the BNPL spending habits of a teenager, government is right to step in and stop shopkeepers from seeking to cheese their way through business (only in the short term) by relying on a fickle and unsustainable base of new creditors.

Putting a new group of people into predatory debt is a nice way to juice your numbers before you dump your shares, but it's not a good way to sustain an economy focused on producing real value.

Metrics on X have lost all of their credibility since Elon took over.

The guy likely juices his own numbers, floods posts he likes with botted engagement, etc.

Likes are private so he can delude Trumpers into thinking they're popular in a sea of bots.

So if you cozy up to the mad king, he'll tell you what he plans to do with appropriate notice. This is the least American tyrannical bullshit I've ever seen in this country, and nobody should be condoning it.

The most important thing that can be done for the prosperity of America right now is to put an end to the senseless fraud and nonsensical policy promoted by the snake oil salesman of the MAGA movement.

It's so painfully obvious to anyone paying attention that his whole character reeks of fraud. How this news could ever come as a surprise to anyone is a testament to how poorly our mainstream and social media outlets have informed the citizenry.

The main use case of technology and AI is to sway public opinion. Elon Musk is one of the richest men in the world and that's where he spends most of his focus. If you're building technology, know that this is the endgame, and proceed with caution.

The amount of deceit per dollar you can generate today is profoundly inexpensive when compared to the entirety of human history. Sadly, our cowardly tech giants are the antithesis of the morals espoused in comic books they grew up on, seeking to abdicate all responsibility as they achieve unprecedented power.

Which ten regulations did they cut to introduce this anti-free speech one?